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That sounds like incredibly poor planning on the part of the students and like there are no standards for colleges to follow.

Contrast that with attending Houston Community College where they ask you if you'll be going on to a 4 year degree and if so in what and where. They can tell you exactly what courses to take at HCC to carry on to U of H, TAMU, UT, etc to finish a degree.

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In some states it's not really the fault of the student; no amount of planning would've helped you. The 4 year college will keep changing the structure of the requirements, and while their own students will be grandfathered in, a transfer student will have to somehow make up the credits that have changed out from under them. I've seen this even in states that supposedly let you transfer everything from a 2 year. You technically still have a bunch of credits, they just don't fulfill all of the requirements of your degree progression at that point; it's sort of like if you had switched majors as a junior.

well specifically for my school there were a lot of classes that we took freshman and sophomore year that weren’t offered at any CC. Therefore students had to go back and take those cs courses.

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